Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-12
NEWSLETS.
Gathered From All Parts
Of the Country.
Mu1tum in ParvO.

i mltted to the bar of Arkansas last week.
The Colored People of Lawrence,
Kan, have established public library.
There are seven Colored students in
the departments at Harvard college this
year.
| Mr.. W. Walden, Colored, has been
appointed deputy city clerk in Indian
apolis, Ind.
DR.. Jas. E. Henderson, Colored, has
been appointed police court surgeon at
Kansas City, Mo.
The Republicans of Petersburg, Va,
have nominated w. w. Evans, editor of
the Lancet, for the legislature.
During riot which occurred near
Berwick, La, last Saturday, five CoIored
and four white men were killed.
Mr.. Lawrence Jones, Colored, has
been appointed to a clerkship in the
postoffice of Parkersburg, w. Va.
Miss Ida Gray, Colorsd, Of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, has entered the dental de-
partment at Ann Arbor University.
Prof. ]. F. Ransom, Colored, has been
appointed musical instructor for the Y.
M. c. A. (white) of Columbus, Ohio.
Gov. Hill, of New York, has appoint
ed Prof. D. A. Straker, of Detroit, COM
missioner of deeds for New York for
Michigan.
Madam Selika and "Blind Tom" the
greatest Colored vocalist and pianist in
the country, are performing together in
New York.
Doctors J. T. Newman and w. H.
Pemberton, both Colored, acted as pro-
fessional experts in a recent insanity
case in Boston, Mass.
Ex-Gov. A. B. Cornell, of New York,
is paying the expenses Of Geo. Fields, 4
Colored man. at the new law school of
Cornell college, Itbica, N. Y.
Mr.. Joseph Davis, Colored, OF Provi-
dence, R. T., is the author of play
called .'Marguerite's Revenge" which
he will soon put on the stage.
Judge Gibbs, and Hon. J. Pennoyer
Jones of Arkansas, We're the only Col
ored delegates to the recent Western
Waterways convention at Memphis,
Tenn.
Mr.. Nelson Caldwell, of the Citizens
Gas Co., Indianapolis, Ind, is the only
Colored man in the United States who
is member Of the Gas-Makers Asso-
citation.
Fred Dougloss predicts that the Chin
ese will soon overrun the United States
and take the place in the popular mind
that has been and now is occupied by
the Colored man.
Mr.. John H. Morris, a well known
Colored man, who claims to have
"kicked'' Rev, H. r. Revels into the
United States senate, committed suicide
in Leaventworth. KY, last week.
The Franklin Ash and Garbage Co.,
has been incorporated in Chicago for
the purpose of manufacturing the ash
and garbage box recently invented by
Mr.. A. 7. Bradley, Colored man of
that city.
Some Celored men are to jealous
afraid that some man will be benefited
if a movement succeeds. Such men are
unworthy Of the confidence of the peo-
pie. They retard the progress Of the
race Richmond Planet
Oscar Peck, colored resident of
Bridgeport, Conn, who served as a
powder monkey in Farragut's
squadron before New Orleans in the
"late unpleasantness," in consideration
of bravery and wounds displayed and
received on that occasion has been paid
back pension amounting to 81 ,290.
/ There died at the St. Joseph, Mo-,
poor-house, a few days ago, Gabriel
Scott, a Colored man, who was born the
10th of 1882 at Richmond, Va, where
he lived until he was % years old. He
subsequently, purchased his freedom,
and went to New Haven, Conn.,, and
then went to st. Joseph, He was los
years old when he died.
Miss Amelia Z. Hlghman, Colorsd
editor of the Musical Messenger Il
Montgomery, a musician and vocalist
of rare ability, has been offered the
professorship Of music at the new
Iberia, La, College, she has also been
invited by the x. Of L. assembly Of
Columbus, Ga, to produce the calatats
entitled Queen Esther
A few DAYS ago bucket filed with
!. mortar fell from the top Of the new
court house in Macon, Ga, and struck
4 squarely on the head of Colored work
man who was standing on the ground
The bottom was split into flinders, anG
the bucket and mortar completely en-
scased the mans face, SO that he was il
danger Of suffocation until relieved
from his peculiar but critical condition
by fellow workman.
Last Tuesday Maggie Sherman, Col
ored, Of Airmount, Mss, had Eel
! Boyle, q young white rough, arrested OF
9 charge of indecent assault on hersel
and eight-year old daughter. AS sh,
concluded her testimony in the cour
room the prisoner shot her through th.
4 heart, killing her instantly. He the1
ran from the room, and while frisne
kept the crowd ct bay with 4 revolver
he mounted his horse and escaped.